Hawaii resident spends his vacation skating Aumsville.

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Aumsville is a community of just three thousand, deep in Oregon's Willamette Valley. After working for almost four years to collect enough funds to meet the state's 60/40 grant requirement, the task of locating a design and build team fell to volunteer coordinator, Theresa Voorhis.

A mother and former professional cross-country horse-racing participant, Theresa knew the importance of having a facility designed and built by those who were intimate with the sport. Polling the local skateboarders, she received overwhelming requests for Dreamland. Researching skateboarding facilities as well as the experience of others in working with the team, Dreamland was awarded the contract to design and build the Aumsville skatepark.

Aumsville remains one of the skateboarding world's favorites, where it is common to see some of the world's best skateboarders arrive in a chartered van after landing at the Portland airport, almost 80 miles away. Thrasher again commented on Dreamland's work with an article on its web site: "we give it a '9' out of a '10', because we need to leave room for future Dreamland parks."

"Dreamland made it extremely easy for a small town like ours to have a world- class skateboard park. They worked extremely well as a team, required very little fancy materials, and would make the most use of what was on hand, saving us money in materials. ... Creative design is Dreamland's number one hallmark. There's nothing like their concrete finish, it's incredible. The community has wholly embraced our popular new skatepark."

-Theresa Voorhis, volunteer coordinator, Aumsville, Oregon.

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